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FOURTH NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 
frost no sign of a flower? Of course, you expected flowers in July, and }-ou would 
have had them if you had, just before setting the plants into the garden, broken 
off a little of their hea\^^ roots; in other words, pruned their roots. Try it next 
spring and watch results. 
Is any one of my readers growing a Wistaria which was planted several 
years ago and has never flowered? Were you ever in an audience where the 
speaker asked this question, and did you notice how many held up their hands? 
It is a common occurrence, and yet no literature is found that treats of it. 
Let me teU you how you can get flowers on that plant of yours. Early in April, 
lift your plant entirely from its present location, and before setting it back 
cut back some of every heavy root; in other words, root prune it. The follow- 
ing year you will have flowers. 
Do you grow Dahlias, and fail with them? Be assured you are not the 
only one, but let me suggest to you a novel scheme: WTierever you wish to 
plant a Dahlia, dig a hole fifteen inches square and deep, and fill up to ■v\dthin 
three inches of the surface with small pebbles. Set upon these your tubers, and 
fill in the balance of the hole with more pebbles. Just as soon as the plants 
are up a foot, spray them ever\' other evening after sundown with a fine mist 
of "Death to the WTiite Fly" and also moisten the ground with it. You will 
be amazed at the results. 
I could go on forever in this strain, and perhaps you would not object, but 
the space allotted to me does not permit more. 
So by way of farewell, I hope that my few remarks may have fallen as 
seeds on fertile ground, and may be instrumental in making you a happier 
gardener. 
M 
NIKOTEEN 
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